Ethical Issues in Regard to Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health Treatment (Ethics)
3 CEs - Ethics
What do you do when a devoutly spiritual client comes to you, wants to include their spirituality in their treatment and you are not very familiar with their spirituality? What ethical issues are raised by treating people from diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds? What ethical issues arise when you, as a provider, have strong religious or spiritual beliefs?
This interactive training will help participants understand the ethical issues that may arise in treating client from different religious backgrounds and how religious competency is an ethical issue. Participants will learn how to address a client’s religion and spirituality in an ethical way, if and when it is ethical to incorporate it into treatment, and some common issues pertinent to treating clients from different religions. (Trainer, Erik Hadden, MA, LCPC, Vital Sources Psychological Services)
https://nefesh.org/workshops/Religionethics/viewFREE WEBINAR
Learning Objectives:
- Identify prevalent ethical challenges that emerge when integrating religious and spiritual aspects into mental health treatment.
- Articulate the significance of religious competency within the mental health field, emphasizing its importance as a crucial aspect of ethical practice.
- Enhance the ability to establish a therapeutic environment that respects religious clients beliefs and cultivates safety and affirming for religious clients
Agenda:
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- Introductions and Ice Breaker (5 minutes)
- Why Religious Competency in Mental Health Treatment is Important (30 minutes)
- The ethical guidelines around religious competency as cultural competency (ACA, AAMFT, APA, NASW).
- Definitions based on literature
- Case examples of how religious/spiritual issues arise in treatment
- Growing in understanding our own biases and worldview to avoid coercion (Know Your Worldview exercise) (15 minutes)
- Religious Literacy as an Ethical issue and overview of major world religions. (75 minutes)
- How to conduct a religious/spiritual assessment (15 minutes)
- Ethical issues around self-disclosure of a religious or spiritual nature (15 minutes)
- How to define and identify spiritual abuse (15 minutes)
- Review and Summarize (10 minutes)
- Introductions and Ice Breaker (5 minutes)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
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